Citizen Journalism: Can We Trust it?

Over at the HuffPo, Tom Alderman weighed in on 'citizen journalism' today, calling out the practice for its tendency toward "gossip" and its lack of accuracy, reliability, and accepted standards of ethics and...

Coastal Loss, Coastal Cost

This sounds like a reasonable idea.Who else agrees?The oil and gas companies should help repair what they damaged."Mr. Bill creator Walter Williams turns his camera on the oil and gas industry and asks for help...

Miami gets all lathered up

Sony has made another advert in downtown Miami - this time with foam, after their successful 'Balls', 'Paint' and 'Play-Doh' adverts."The new advert, "Foam City", promotes Sony's Handycam, Cyber-shot and α,...

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off grandest stunt to date - despite being watch...

England's most famous graffiti artist has pulled off yet another fantastic stunt - right under the noses of the CCTV cameras. This latest work is believed to be his biggest yet and it's right in the middle of...

Flowers & Hidden Camera Taken from Cemetery

"MACCLENNY, FL -- A Baker County woman was so set on finding the crooks that kept stealing her husbands' grave flowers, she bought a high-tech motion activated camera to catch them in the act. So was she...

PoV: SkypePhone - The Eighteenth Day

“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I have learned once more. Mee andI had been criticising the day we got our hands on it but I havetotally changed my point of view since I used it from 29th January 2008. Atthe beginning, the very next day we signed a contract with 3...

Sarkozy calls for Franco-British Brotherhood, but his New Wife Proves a Distr...

The French President Nicholas Sarkozy visited the UK today, bringing along his controversial new wife."French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he wanted to build a stronger alliance with Britain and improve...

RIM, AT&T announce Wi-Fi-enabled Pearl 8120

This is clearly an attempt to battle against the iphone and it's always a necessary and good idea. The real coup is having a carrier like AT&T with the cajones to give up the lucrative data access charges when...

BC thief with 50 convictions to get Welfare Cheque

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Career Criminal with 50 criminal convictions since 1977 whose Motive Operandi in preying on the elderly was arrested this week, on suspicion of stealing the rings off...

Cyber-Rebels in Cuba Defy State’s Limits

Internet access is supposed to be impossible to get in Cuba, unless you're prepared to go to the one internet cafe in the country. However, a growing contingent of people are turning to underground internet...

Luxury Living on the Campaign Trail

Res ipsa loquiturAnd be sure to see the CNN photo link. "This has got to be a first. Here in Austin, on the night before that make-or-break Texas primary, the Clinton campaign has set up a filing center for the traveling press corps ... in a men's room. Insert metaphor...

Neil Jordan sucks/ The Brave One

"Back when The Crying Game came out, I was one of the few who were not at all surprised that the chick with the big hands and Adam's Apple had a dick too."

'Soldier ghost' caught on camera

"A group of amateur film-makers believe they may have proof that ghosts really do exist after one of them caught something strange on camera. George Gunn said he captured pictures of a ghostly apparition while out walking along a footpath in Outwood, near Wakefield, West...

SEARS, ScanBuy 2D Codes, And The Web 2.0 :: Symblogogy

"Last week, at the NRF 97th Annual Convention & EXPO 2008 held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, Sears discussed its efforts to launch an in-store test solution for providing customers access to...

'Cloverfield' Sickens Moviegoers

Despite its devastatingly good weekend at the box office, it was the monster movie's cinematography that really got moviegoers churning."Cloverfield, the blockbuster horror film selling out cinemas across America,...

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